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It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.
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The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.
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Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
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. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.
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Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
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Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.
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Youth is always an enemy to the old.
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Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.
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The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
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